I’m skipping around the alphabet and sliding around the world to land on Uganda and the book Kintu, a novel by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. It’s a multigenerational story about a curse released in 1750. Kintu Kiddu’s descendants deal with its effects until the the novel’s conclusion, set in 2004. At the same time, it asks… [Read More]
When I last wrote about Angola, it was about the country’s culture and customs , because why not? If I am ever able to travel there, it will be useful information. For this country-by-country challenge, I went with fiction. Saudadeis a novella by Suneeta Peres da Costa about a Goan (Indian) family living in Angola… [Read More]
Djibouti has a strategic location, an excellent deep water port on the Red Sea, and a relatively poor population. Much of the nation’s land is salt flats. When I last took a look at Djibouti, it was in the form of a mystery adventure set at the port. This time, the story is different. Beau… [Read More]
Albert Camus is the best-known author from Algeria, but he is not the only one. Yasmina Khadra is another. It’s the feminine pen name used by the masculine Mohammed Moulessehoul, who served in the Algerian Army and wanted to avoid censorship. This particular novella is part of the French Voices series of translations at the… [Read More]
(Note: as I struggle with learning a foreign language, I wrote this little piece. It’s supposed to be humorous – or is it?) This semester we have learned how to ask for directions to the library, analyzed passages by the greatest of the foreign language’s authors,and parsed details about the proper uses of the subjunctive… [Read More]
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